kmix (with pulseaudio) main channel affects other channels as well. also there is no way to control channels directly anymore
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kdemultimedia (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdemultimedia
In Kubuntu 10.10/KDE SC 4.5 kmix works differently than before when one uses pulseaudio. As said, the main channel affects other channels as well. The buggy thing is, that once affected, the other channels do not remember their old settings. That is a problem with 5.1 upmix, because one want different channels to have different volumes. So after using masterchannel they are all the same volume
The second point that bothers me is, that you can not control the other channels/speakers anymore. So one has to do this with alsamixer, but than accidently changed main channel with kmix everything is lost.
In 10.04 pulseaudio wasn't standard, but i needed it for the upmix function to get 5.1 sound with the creative x-fi card. Though that was no problem because kmix worked fine.
I know that this “Bug” comes with KDE 4.5 because i tested it once with 10.04 and had the same problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kmix 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 12 23:50:04 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kmix
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdemultimedia
XsessionErrors: (process:1741): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization
I'm having the same problem. KMix only shows "SB Live! EMU10k1 Analog Stereo" which I assume is the master channel. Alsamixer does allow me to configure the individual channels, however I need to do this every time I restart the computer. In particular this in inconvenient since I need to be able to constantly adjust my optical audio channels.